Oklo
Sam Altman-chaired SMR startup building the Aurora fast microreactor
Oklo designs the Aurora 'powerhouse,' a small sodium-cooled fast microreactor (~15-75 MWe) aimed at powering data centers and industrial sites. Chaired by OpenAI's Sam Altman and public via SPAC (ticker OKLO), it plans a first Aurora at Idaho National Laboratory targeting ~2027-2028 and has signed large non-binding LOIs/agreements (e.g., with data-center developers and Switch) totaling gigawatts of future capacity. No Oklo reactor is yet operating, so its supply is prospective.
Product
Aurora sodium-cooled fast microreactor (~15-75 MWe)
Chair
Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO)
First plant target
Idaho National Laboratory, ~2027-2028
Status
Pre-revenue; large LOI pipeline (incl. Switch)
How it fits the stack
Oklo with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Oklo in the AI stack. Oklo with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
- Oklo —depends on→ HALEU Enrichment Fuel
- Oklo —competes with→ NuScale Power
- Oklo —partners with→ OpenAI
- Oklo —designs→ Nuclear Power (incl. SMRs)
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